Category: Open Education
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COPIM Conference: Experimental Books – Re-imagining Scholarly Publishing
Experimental Books – Re-imagining Scholarly Publishing Exploring Archival Data Performances, Re-using as Re-writing, and Computational Books An Online Conference in Three Parts Monday 20 February, Thursday 9 March, & Monday 13 March 2023 Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) Experimental Publishing and Reuse Work Package final conference Register here (free): https://experimentalbooks.pubpub.org/ (please note that places…
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Disrupting the Humanities: Towards Posthumanities
I am very pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing: ‘Disrupting the Humanities: Towards Posthumanities’, edited by Gary Hall and myself. This special issue consists of a selection of video-articles by contributors including Mark Amerika, Monika Bakke, Endre Dányi, Johanna Drucker, Lesley Gourlay, Sarah Kember, Silvio Lorusso, Erin Manning,…
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During our time at the Triangle SCI Institute 2016 in Chapel Hill, our team (consisting of Samuel Moore, Sherri Barnes, Donna Lanclos, Stuart Lawson, Eileen Joy and Janneke Adema) primarily came together with a strong motivation to think through what a not-for-profit and non-platform based alternative to social researching sites such as Academia.edu and ResearchGate…
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Call for Creative Works and Papers – The Disrupted Journal of Media Practice
Although media practice as a field and community embraces a plurality of media, the materiality of its scholarly forms of production and communication remain predominantly text-based. How then, can a journal of media practice (JMP) extend from a speculative focus on what media practice as research could be, to an exploration of the alternative forms of…
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Videos ‘Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu’ Symposium Now Online
In view of the current discussion taking place over Academia.edu’s introduction of an ‘article recommendation charge’, and the subsequent #DeleteAcademiaEdu hashtag, we thought you might be interested in this: Last month The Centre for Disruptive Media (http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/) at Coventry University organised a symposium on academic social networking platforms called ‘Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu?’ Chaired…
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In solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub
:::::::::::::::::: contact: little.prince@custodians.online In Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s tale the Little Prince meets a businessman who accumulates stars with the sole purpose of being able to buy more stars. The Little Prince is perplexed. He owns only a flower, which he waters every day. Three volcanoes, which he cleans every week. “It is of some…
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Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu?
With: Janneke Adema – Chair (Coventry University, UK) Pascal Aventurier (INRA, France) Kathleen Fitzpatrick (MLA/Coventry University, US) Gary Hall (Coventry University, UK) David Parry (Saint Joseph’s University, US) Registration: http://why-are-we-not-boycotting-academia-edu.eventbrite.co.uk Organised by The Centre for Disruptive Media: www.disruptivemedia.org.uk Schedule: 3:00-3:30: Registration tea/coffee 3:30-3:40: Introduction (Janneke Adema) 3:40-4:00: Pascal Aventurier…
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The Monograph Crisis Revisited
Last week, on the 22nd of January, the report Monographs and Open Access, written by Geoffrey Crossick for HEFCE, was released. I would like to respond to the specific way in which the monograph crisis is described and represented in this report. I want to do so by emphasising the multiple dimensions as well as…
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Open Education: Condition Critical
Open Education: Condition Critical A panel exploring opportunities to critically and creatively experiment with different ideas of what the university and education can be http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/ Thursday November 20th 4:30-6:30pm Coventry University Panellists: Sean Dockray (The Public School/AAAAARG.ORG) – via Skype Richard Hall (De Montfort University Leicester) Shaun Hides (Coventry University) Sharon Irish (University of Illinois/FemTechNet)…
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Knowledge Machines: The Potential of the Digital. Symposium on alternative practices in humanities research
TEEME and The Centre for Disruptive Media present: Knowledge Machines: The Potential of the Digital. A symposium on alternative practices in humanities research Saturday, 27 September 2014 from 11:00 to 18:15 University of Kent Grimond Lecture Theatre 3 Grimond Building CT2 7NZ Canterbury United Kingdom http://www.kent.ac.uk/knowledge-machines Registration: http://www.knowledgemachines.eventbrite.co.uk/ Knowledge Machines is a free one-day symposium…
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Our Take On Disruption
[Reblog from The Centre for Disruptive Media Blog] Disruption, as a term and theory, has been the subject of much discussion in both mainstream and social media – a level of interest that has only increased as a result of Jill Lepore’s June 2014 article for The New Yorker, ‘The Disruption Machine’. In…
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Experiments in editing
On March 7th of this year we ran our first seminar as part of the Disrupting the Humanities Seminar Series at Coventry University, which has been organised by the Centre for Disruptive media. You can find more information about this series here. The videos for this seminar, entitled ‘Disrupting the scholarly establishment. How to create…